I mean, doesn't it kind of defeat the whole purpose of having your own plane if it departs before you arrive?
Read more Tony Stark QuotesFrom: Iron Man (2008)
Pepper Potts: What is going on here?Tony Stark: Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing.Pepper Potts: Are those bullet holes?
Ho Yinsen: We met, you know, in a technical conference in Bern.Tony Stark: I don't remember.Ho Yinsen: Of course not. If I had been that drunk, I wouldn't have been able to stand, let alone give a lecture on integrated circuits.
Yinsen: That doesn't look like the Jericho missile.Tony Stark: That's because it is a miniaturized arc reactor. I've got a big one powering my factory at home.Yinsen: What will it generate?Tony Stark: If my math is right, and it always is, three gigajoules per second.Yinsen: That could run your heart for fifty lifetimes!Tony Stark: Yeah... or something big for fifteen minutes.